The Padres have extended the contract of manager Andy Green, as per a team press release. Terms weren’t officially announced by the club, though MLB.com’s AJ Cassavell reports (Twitter link) that Green received a three-year extension to his current deal, so he’ll now remain in change of the Padres’ dugout through the 2021 season. FanRag Sports’ Jon Heyman recently reported that Green’s original deal included at least one club option year, so this new extension overwrites that option (or options) with a firmer commitment.
Green has just a 119-159 record since being hired as San Diego’s manager in the 2015-16 offseason, though of course his stewardship of a rebuilding team wasn’t being judged on wins and losses. It is clear that upper management feels Green is the best choice to lead the team through the rebuilding phase and eventually into contention.
“[Green’s] managerial style is characterized by intelligence, preparation and integrity, and he has continually proven himself to be the right person to lead this young team,” Padres owners Ron Fowler and Peter Seidler stated in the press release. “We look forward to him managing, motivating and teaching the many waves of talent that we know are on their way to San Diego.”
A veteran of four MLB seasons, Green spent four years managing within the Diamondbacks’ farm system before becoming Arizona’s third base coach for the 2015 season. Green just turned 40 years old last month and is still the second-youngest current manager in the bigs (Rays skipper Kevin Cash is 39).
Why because he sucks at tanking, they think he’s a great coach?
Note: In baseball, they’re led by a manager, not a “coach”. Kinda undercuts your two-cents-worth not to know that…..
I know what its called, trust me I have more baseball knowledge than you do . A manager is just considered the highest level of a coach. Therefore still a coach.
Very few things convince me that someone does not have much baseball knowledge more certainly than feeling the need to say “trust me I have more baseball knowledge than you do.”
“A manager is just considered the highest level of a coach,” he says, further proving a lack of credible baseball knowledge.
Hahaha exactly
It’s right up there with ‘do you know who I am?’
No its because he can handle the situation in San Diego, which is a clear rebuilding. He also can mentor the younger players and knows how to use veterans to also help the youth. Plus he seems to be well respected in the clubhouse.
The fact that they have been playing well (over .500) since mid May, shows that there is a lot of promise with this team. With such a sketchy rotation and a lot of young players, the Padres may not be as far off as we thought.
Green looks like a hell of a guy to play for — very motivated, very intense and thoughtful.
This is exciting news. I’ve been a big supporter of Andy Green since day one and I think he is proving that he knows what he’s doing. He is still learning but he’s figuring it out, the team seems to support him, the players seem like him, he seems like a relatable guy. I think he can lead the young group of padres to something special.
I also am a very big fan of the Green McGwire combo.
A lot of teams have their guy to get from point A to B but another guy in mind when ready to win. or someone falls into a team’s lap, like Joe Masson for the Cubs.
True. But Joe Masson can’t make cheap brandy as well as Paul Masson.
He couldn’t lead ants to a picnic
I am impressed as well, with the Green/MacGuire duo. Mark is not being paid to go on about his mistakes and eff ups. He’s getting paid to be Andy’s right hand man…and I think his influence and knowledge has affected this team in ways we don’t even see or know.
Bud Black is the kind of manager that, to my mind be, is more comfortable and motivated, with older players who know exactly how to play the game (ie: his first year in 2007)…2010, was very much a fluke.
But ever since Bochy left, I have not seen a manager as adept and capable, of teaching and managing a group as young as this. And I know that if the pitching was 3 ticks better than what is currently is, this team would be right in the thick of things. Andy Green has done a tremendous job.
2007 was all older veterans? The only ones I can see were 36-year-old Brian Giles, 34-year-old Mike Cameron, 39-year-old Trevor Hoffman, 40-year-old Doug Brocail, 41-year-old Maddux and 44-year-old Wells. 6 out of the 49 guys that took the field for them that year. It was a miracle that the Padres 2007 team did as well as it did.
2010 was the 2nd time Black had taken a team expected to win 74 games and filled with has-beens, journeymen, and kids to the brink of the playoffs. No fluke. The guy is a heck of a manager. Just look at what he has done this season with a team projected to win 79.5-80.5 games. They are on pace to win 90 and a WC berth in the playoffs.
He’s a company “yes man.” Perfect generic employee for a completely generic organization.
Can’t say I see much evidence for that, but perhaps you can provide some!!
Losing does not make you a bad manager. It is not Andy’s fault that the San Diego Padres are fielding a AAA team. What makes a good manager is having the players on your side. Once you lose the respect of the players then you become a bad manager…
Buck Showalter, Joe Maddon, Joe Girardi and the best of them couldnt manage this team out of last place …
They’re not in last place, so….
I guess Green is the best manager in baseball then?
Nope, just the best one for the Padres
I only have 2 problems with Andy Green.
1. He takes stuff lying down. Rizzo sliding into hedges, contreras tripping our player while blocking the plate illegally, wood threatening to throw at pirelas head. He really did nothing about those.
Not saying he should have thrown at rizzo contreras or a dodgers player, but would of been nice to see him call out the MLB for their inaction and take a fine or suspension for a game to back his players. Also idk why he was fined during the dave roberts outburst. He did nothing fine worthy. Should have, but didnt. Also would of been nice to see him call out the MLB for just fining Wood threatening pirela which he said to an umpire no less. I mean kelvin herrera got an extra game tacked onto his suspension for throwing at brett lawrie by indicating with gestures throwing at his head.
2. Doesnt use the bullpen all that well. But that at least has something to do with management trading 2 guys recently and pushing for more playing time for tradable assets and young players.
Agreed on both parts!!
A former teammate of mine had a saying for guys like Green – Huevos del tamaño de mármoles.
Is “marmoles” something very small? because only then it would make sense.
You have got to be kidding me!!!!!! Green is the worst guy you could put in charge of this or any other team in the majors! Another one of AJ’s screwed up decisions. One of these days maybe he’ll learn how to be a good GM and decide if he wants to win or just bring up talent to trade for more prospects to do the same with to help other teams. Is he related to Trump?
I think Prellers a great GM. Look at what he has done with his prospects, using the international signing period, rule 4 draft, and trades to collect quite an impressive number of great prospects. He’s allowing his manager to grow with his young team, and not using the revolving door approach.
Not using the revolving door approach? He is on his third manager already. That is why he kept him. He does not want to go to the 4th this soon as eventually ownership will figure out Preller is the problem
Pat Murphy doesnt count. He was an interim manager.
Great GM? Ha
Brain dead
Shouldn’t be so hard on yourself it’s not your fault
You’re right. It’s not my fault you’re brain dead. It’s probably your mom’s for drinking while she was pregnant with you.
Managers aren’t supposed grow with the team, they’re supposed to teach them how to play, something Green is not capable of doing! Give the job to McGuire!
So Andy is bad cause he is attached to AJ choosing him; even though the Seidlers, Fowler and Dee signed off on the deal. I have personaly talked with Peter Seidler at games and he does nothing but rave about AJ and the front office he has assembled. 100 percent behind him, Andy and the plan they have in place. This signing only reinforces what I have heard direct from the horses mouth. If you don’t like it, fine but it’s not all on AJ.
Proof of AJ being bad is he brings up talent and trades them for more prospects? Where do you think he is supposed to get talent from outside the draft and now they are out of the Intl signing for the next two years?
AJ got Tatis Jr. In the Shields deal. Got De Los Santos in the Benoit deal, Got Chris Paddack in the Rodney deal, Pomeranz and Torres in the Alonso deal, flipping Pom to get Espinoza.. The Kimbrel deal was done mostly for Guerra but Margot has been the MVP of this season, Asuaje is easily the most improved, and Logan Allen is showing well in high A. Guerra has rebounded too to some extent and is still very young. Even Pedro Avila was an outright magic tick to get anything for Derek Norris. Yeah Capps has been iffy but him and Naylor for 2 months of a beardless Cashner was magic as well. It’s early but if Strahm can rebound, and Wood is free for 2018 to eat innings, all the while Ruiz is continuing to build on his small sample size of recent success. AJ is horribly bad at getting talent into this franchise. Serenity now.
Getting Tatis in the Shields dump was one of his best moves
I totally agree, you can’t really ask for much more than what Preller and Co. have been doing. Extending Green is another great move. Keeping him with all of the young guys they are bringing up is key to getting this team as a whole to develop into a future contender.
Boy with so many screwed up decisions by AJ Preller, the worse GM in baseball, I would not know where to begin in ranking his bad decisions
Lol, you may wanna scroll up and see what @injediwetrust just wrote. Worst GM? Please
If i was a gambling man, id bet not one person commenting here has watched 1 baseball game this year. Just look at standings and say ” horrible manager”.
@Ironman
Then do not gamble. You are obviously not good at it
Ok mr sensitive.
Green is just like the other new breed of “analytics only” managers in today’s game. Their lineups, player and bullpen usage come from upstairs and not necessarily the manager and his staff’s opinions. More than half of today’s managers have this type of working arrangement where the dugout is simply a direct extension of the front office. Preller has his puppet. Green is a good company man who uses big words during his press conferences that allows one to skirt the real issues.
Questionable move. Not a big fan of Green and even if I were this extension wasn’t necessary for like another year.
Of course you’re not because you’re u.
They are only above .500 last 48 games for team projected to lose 96 but yeah he stinks
What are you saying?
They never should have let Bud Black go! But Preller screwed up the team his first year in his attempt to make the Padres a fantasy baseball team. Gutted the Farm. Then blamed Bud Black. Now ready on his third manager …. who would even want the mangerial job if it came available?
Third manager? Really? Pat Murphy? lol.
Green is Prellers 2nd manager. Black then Green.
No its his 3rd manager.
This is a questionable move for that team at best. Maybe Preller and the Padres ownership feel that there is really no Maddon or Hinch type of manager that will be available in the offseason, so they may as well stick with the guy they have, no matter how bad he is. The Padres are currently playing 2.3 games below what the WAR of the players collectively indicates they should be at. Moves like putting in a closer in the 7th inning in the middle of an at bat and players like Solarte and Myers (the team leaders?) not running out balls in play is not an indication of a manager having the respect of the players nor of being good manager. His handling of Rizzo and Wood situations are not indicative of a manager that has his players backs either. You don’t get the player’s respect by showing zero passion in times like that. That made him look like a wimp and no one respects wimps. What Green seems to do well is deal with rookies and young players. It seems to me that the Padres are going to play it out with the kids and not make a play for any big free agents or big trades in an attempt to contend in 2018 or 2019. It looks like the arrival of Quantrill, Lauer, Lucchesi, Urias, Morejon, and others in mid-2019 and early 2020 will signal the beginning of a Padres run at the Dodgers, Rockies, and Diamondbacks in the NL West in 2020 and beyond. After so many years of being bad, I’m sure that Padres fans were hoping for a better team sooner than that. I commiserate with Padres fans, 2020-2021 may be the next time my O’s make a run at the Yankees and Red Sox.
Well deserved.
Personally I believe Andy is just not respected at all. I remember watching a game where he came out to take the ball from James Shields, and Shields just gave him a look like “are you kidding me?”, and he just returned to the dugout to watch Shields get destroyed a bit more. Probably wasn’t respected by Kemp, Norris, Upton, etc. because, let’s get real, all of those guys enjoyed more success than Andy ever dreamed of doing so. Maybe these new players can look past that and learn something from Andy’s well merchandised “intelligence”.
To me this was unnecessary as he hasn’t done much to merit it, maybe in a year or so when his contract was close to done would have made more sense.
Who cares what Shields thought he stunk here.
Kemp did nothing. Norris was he horrendous and Justin was streaky. Melvin well we know how he was
The point is that it was hard for them to respect someone that hasn’t done much to consider worth respecting, and it’s not hard to see why. Andy’s intelligence is something that you have to trust is there and that’s it, as he has no tangible or measurable results to back him up. I mean, I really want to like the guy, and believe he is a good manager, but for some reason I just don’t buy it.
Can you count to potato?
Nice argument, as usual.
I have to dumb my arguments down so he can understand them
Ohhh, so then you agree with me? that’s cool.
Yea if you agree you’re cool